In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctorate candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived a few minutes late to Jerzy Neyman’s statistics lecture while there were two homework problems ...

What is X-Seed 4000? The X-Seed 4000 is a tapered, pyramid-shaped megastructure with a sea-based location, inspired by Mount Fuji, designed as an artificial island with interconnected nodes, ...

In Arabic, Islam means “submission to God,” and a Muslim is a person “devoted to God.” Like Jews and Christians, Muslims are monotheists. They believe there is only one God who created the world and ...

What was daily life like in ancient Rome? How did people spend their days in the Roman Empire? The Roman civilization was an unusual culture with some resemblance to our own. There are parts of life ...

Henry Ford spent millions in the Amazonian model city Fordlândia ages before other brands did, and the city had amenities like a golf club, or a burger joint. Insurrection broke out among the ...

The Roman pilum was a sort of heavy javelin used by the ancient Roman legions. The pilum probably has its origins in Celtic culture and was adopted by the Roman army somewhere between the fourth and ...

Cavalry on ancient battlefields introduced a new element, proving useful both in reconnaissance and pursuing defeated enemies. The term “cavalry” is quite broad and includes war horses, donkeys, ...

This kind of two-handed war hammer, characterized by a very long spike at the top, has its roots in 14th-century Switzerland. In particular (or at least mostly), the Lucerne canton of Switzerland; ...

Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trials had high IQ scores. But Hitler’s estimated IQ is around 115–120, possibly above average. Hitler’s reading habit included over 16,300 books in his personal ...

The sarissa is a spear that was in use in the early third century BC and was between 180 and 300 inches in length (4.5–7.5 m). During Alexander the Great‘s conquests and the Wars of the Diadochi, this ...

In the Middle Ages, the imaginary is an integral part of reality. The world of that time cannot be conceived otherwise. Within this panorama, both real and wonderful, plants play a major role in ...

Triangular trade, or Triangle trade, was a system that facilitated black slavery on a global scale. The system spanned three continents: Ships loaded with goods were sent from Europe to Africa. There, ...